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CHINA HuMAN TRAFFICkING DATAsHEET Chinese people have migrated internally in search of a better life and more opportunities. Around 20 million children migrate with their parents and more than 58 million rural children are left behind at home while their parents seek fulltime employment in urban areas. 24 CuRRENT TRENDs IN TRAFFICkING • Increased forced prostitution, forced labour, forced begging and theft 25 • Increased use of violence in cross-border trafficking crimes 26 Trafficking & law in China lEGAl DEFINITION OF HuMAN TRAFFICkING IN CHINA The Chinese Criminal Law defines trafficking as “the abduction, kidnapping, trading and transporting of women and children for the purpose of selling.” Offences such as forced labour and other trafficking related offences are punished as other crimes and not as trafficking offences. 30 ANTI-TRAFFICkING lAws & GuIDElINEs Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China (1997) key legal instruments, agreements and guidelines which relate to anti-trafficking in China • Law on Penalties for Administration of Public Security • Labor Law • Provision on Prohibition of Child Labor • Guiding Opinions on Punishing Crimes of Trafficking in Women and Children According to Law • Joint Implementation plans of the 29 Inter-Ministerial Office Against Human Trafficking (IMOAT) members • Ministry of Public Security Opinions Concerning Public Security Authorities’ Implementation of the NPA • Evaluation standards for the management of local public security in anti-trafficking work, by the Central Office for Comprehensive Management of Public Security, of the Central Committee of the China Communist Party and Ministry of Public Security • The Five Ministries joint circular on strengthening the work of rescuing vagrant children and children forced into begging • Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT) Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation Against Trafficking in Persons in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (2004) • The China National Plan of Action against Trafficking in Women and Children (NPA) 8 • Increased use of the Internet to lure underage girls into prostitution. China has the world’s largest number of internet users27 • More complex and sophisticated trafficking crime rings28 • Lowered average age of trafficked victims due to increased numbers of trafficked infants less than one month old29 • Increased targeting of young girls for sexual exploitation • Provincial, prefectural and municipal plans for the implementation of the NPA TRAFFICkING PERPETRATORs OPERATING IN CHINA According to local media reports, trafficking of children for illegal adoption is perpetrated by both individuals and groups. Crimes of sexual exploitation and forced prostitution are generally perpetrated by crime syndicates or groups of traffickers. Crimes of forced labour and labour exploitation are generally perpetrated by the factory, kilns or illegal mines owners together with illegal brokers. 31 TRAFFICkING OFFENCEs DEsCRIbED IN lEGAl FRAMEwORks Offences criminalised under Article 240 of the Criminal law of the People’s Republic of China • Abducting or trafficking a woman or child • Engaging in abducting and trafficking women or children as part of a ring • Abducting and trafficking more than three women and/ or children • Raping abducted women • Seducing, tricking, or forcing abducted women into prostitution, or selling abducted women to others who in turn, force them into prostitution • Kidnapping women or children using force, coercion, or narcotics, for the purpose of selling them
• Stealing infants or babies for the purpose of selling them • Causing abducted women or children, or their family members, serious injuries or death or other grave consequences • Selling abducted women or children outside the country Offences Criminalised under Article 241 • Buying abducted women or children • Buying abducted women and forcing them to have sex • Buying abducted women or children and depriving them of or restricting their physical freedom, or injuring or insulting them. Penalties are specified in Article 240. Those buying abducted women or children but not obstructing bought women from returning to their original residence in accordance with their wishes, not abusing bought children and not obstructing efforts to rescue them, may not be investigated for their criminal liability. NOTE: Chinese Criminal Law also punishes trafficking related offences through articles 134 238, 244, 262,321, 358. CHINEsE MINIsTRy OF sECuRITy’s ANTI-TRAFFICkING CAMPAIGN: APRIl TO DECEMbER, 2009 32 10824 During this campaign: Trafficked women and children rescued. 7317 Trafficking cases solved. 1684 10284 Trafficking syndicates broken up. Trafficking suspects placed in criminal detention. 9 TRAFFICkING PROsECuTIONs AND CONvICTIONs 1353 2161 1319 61% 1636 2413 1475 61% 2008 33 Women/children trafficking cases prosecuted in Chinese courts Individuals convicted of a trafficking crime Individuals convicted and sentenced to more than 5 years imprisonment, life imprisonment or death Convictions given sentences of more than 5 years imprisonment 2009 34 Women / child trafficking cases prosecuted in Chinese courts Individuals convicted of a trafficking crime Sentences of more than 5 years imprisonment, life imprisonment, or death Sentences of more than 5 years imprisonment
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